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Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for his generous remarks about my own little efforts. As we have this morning focused, among other matters, on teachers' understanding—or lack of understanding—of the significance of special educational needs, does the hon. Gentleman agree, having just referred to Asperger's syndrome, that it is profoundly unsatisfactory in 2009 that one can come across, as I did courtesy of TreeHouse recently, a quote from a teacher to a parent of an Asperger's child, to wit: "I don't believe in Asperger's syndrome"? It is not a matter of belief, but of the established fact of the condition and how to cater to it.